Richard Pousette-Dart
The Edge1943-1945

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Richard Pousette-Dart
United States, Minnesota, Saint Paul, active New York, 1916-1992
Title: The Edge
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1943-1945
Medium: Oil on linen
Dimensions: 81 × 47 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (205.74 × 120.02 × 3.18 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Fannie and Alan Leslie
Accession Number: M.2006.73.20
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: Richard Pousette-Dart was the first Abstract Expressionist to paint on a monumental scale. Works such as The Edge are composed of a dense and colorful constellation of circles, arcs, triangles, and swirling lines arranged within an irregular grid. His biomorphic and geometric forms are indebted to Surrealism as well as to motifs found in African, Oceanic, and Native American art. Expressing his combined interest in formalism and his devout spirituality, Pousette-Dart described his work as “the dynamic balance, or edge, between the conscious and unconscious.”

Carol Eliel

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